Engine Bay Color

[brian.linn]

i know mopars are known for body color in the engine compartment. But has anyone painted theirs black? I’m building a race car and I’ve hit the firewall moving it back 2 inches and I’ve cut part of the inner doghouse. I’m painting the car white and just thinking about painting the engine bay black... Just looking for thoughts. I’m also putting together a 64 Savoy wagon that will be paint “correct” with the engine bay...

Thanks.

 

[conv67bdere]

Your car . . . Do as you please with it !

 

[R413]

IT doesn’t look very good like that in black. Looks like a brand x car then.

Is it harder to paint it whit than black?

 

[Fran Blacker]

i know mopars are known for body color in the engine compartment. But has anyone painted theirs black? I’m building a race car and I’ve hit the firewall moving it back 2 inches and I’ve cut part of the inner doghouse. I’m painting the car white and just thinking about painting the engine bay black... Just looking for thoughts. I’m also putting together a 64 Savoy wagon that will be paint “correct” with the engine bay...

Thanks.

My view body color. Black on black ok but engine compartment black with another color body looks like you put engine in a black hole, MO. As said earlier it's your car.

 

[Oldreddodge]

When I see a black engine compartment I’m thinking HA! chevymonkey done went and hotel a Mopar!! Now a race car sometime you gotta do what you gotta do

 

[rebel513r]

I vote for body color, if your going to go to the trouble of painting it might as well make it match

 

[zyzzyx]

Black in the engine bay means you can't find the whatchyamacallit you just dropped!
You can't see ****. Race car? neat, neat, neat. you can see right away if something is
out of place or wrong. Black sucks up all of the light. "Black Hole". My opinion!

 

[WesleyK]

It’s your car but I vote body color. Also a white engine bay is easier to see in when working imo. My Trailduster is black and my old Coronet was white. It was way easier to see in it than the black when I have to get in there to work.

 

[brian.linn]

Awesome feedback. I’ll do body color. Thanks all.

 

[gkent]

Not mine

 

[33 IMP]

I have two mopars painted black under the hood, neither done by me. My 62 was intended by me to be a bracket racer from day one, and as a racer i will never put a high dollar paint job on it. It was originally white when i got it, with a blue dodge door. It got a cheap blue paint job, and an engine so i could race, i didnt care about color under the hood.
My barracuda will get the black changed before the engine goes in.
In both cases, the trick would be to match the unknown exterior blue.
As stated by others , it's your car, do what you want. The same mopar guys who get bent out of shape if you say you have a posi in your mopar, will not like black. Too bad. I, personally, would never paint a race car white under the hood.

 

[toolmanmike]

I am a big fan of body color but when your new engine is ready to go in and you look at the compartment and say "damn, I can't put that new mill in that scuzzy hole" Scuff, prime, paint. Yes I have regrets but I really hate the exterior color. (and the gloss black was on the shelf) LOL

 

[zyzzyx]

Go with Pink! All the Chicks will Love It!

 

[Lefty71]

Your car . . . Do as you please with it !

I agree with this 110%, but if you do a nice job moving the firewall back, and then paint it body color, it's going to look damn sweet, IMO.

 

[Burt Byers]

I vote black. But what do know? I have nine Chevrolets and one Plymouth. And the Ply has a black engine bay. Burt

 

[MoparLeo]

If you have to ask others what to do on your car............Looks or function ?

 

[brian.linn]

I’m just looking to take the lazy way out... I know it needs to be body color. I visited Bob Mosher 3 weeks ago. He told me engine bay is body color, underneath the car was primer and undercoat, but they were painting them black per customer requests...

I know what I have to do.

 

[33 IMP]

I completely understand the lazy way out. Last time my engine was out, i had the choice of working my *** off for two or three weeks, cleaning under the hood for paint, dragging my 67year old butt in and out of the engine compartment who-knows how many times, try to find a paint match, and then do a decent job of spraying... OR.... i could just suck it up that it was black, spend an hour or two touching it up, throw in my engine, and have some fun.
I really dont care to hear how my engine compartment should be blue.

 

[brian.linn]

I completely understand the lazy way out. Last time my engine was out, i had the choice of working my *** off for two or three weeks, cleaning under the hood for paint, dragging my 67year old butt in and out of the engine compartment who-knows how many times, try to find a paint match, and then do a decent job of spraying... OR.... i could just suck it up that it was black, spend an hour or two touching it up, throw in my engine, and have some fun.
I really dont care to hear how my engine compartment should be blue.

Lol!! I hear that.

 

[Angleiron2]

I know at least some had a black engine compartment from the factory, my 62 Savoy 2 door has an original black engine bay. The car is originally black.